TOPURIA v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 15 July 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 56283/08Maia TOPURIAagainst Georgialodged on 29 October 2008STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Ms Maia Topuria, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1966 and lives in Tbilisi.2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  On 6 September 2006 the applicant was arrested and charged with high treason. On 8 and 15 September 2006 respectively the Tbilisi City Court remanded the applicant in pre-trial detention for two months pending investigation and then the Tbilisi Court of Appeal, at the final instance, upheld her detention. Subsequently the applicant’s pre-trial detention pending investigation was extended twice, each time by one month, with the end date set at 6 January 2007.4.  At the material time, the Code of Criminal Procedure (“the CCP”) differentiated between detention on rem …